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by pytester 7y ago
It didn't have to be on any pitch decks for safety to be downplayed. Its presence or absence on pitch decks is quite irrelevant. You can tell how seriously they took human lives by their default reaction a plane crash. It's always
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It's not just slower and there is no "promoter" that is filtering down news in the same way with talking points dictated to media. There is a wide variety of views being spread in a far more grass roots fashion. "Propaga
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Krugman wrote a column once I quite enjoyed where he stated that he couldn't quite see why people objected to the TPP because "more trade" isn't something to object to. His own comment section proceeded to school him in
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>Except that shift isn’t spontaneous. Someone has to propose it, someone has to promote it, someone has to popularize it, etc. The mechanism is different though. We didn't just wake up one day and start hearing multiple coherent med
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Similarly, fixing that technical debt will likely look like pure overhead while the benefit of "other people will finish future features faster and with fewer bugs" gets socialized, realized diffusely and goes largely unrecognized
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>OK, I confess that no one really knows what is going on in the mind of Jeremy Corbyn, possibly not even the man himself. It's fairly plain from the people who listen to his words and watch his actions but I can imagine it would be
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by pytester 7y ago
>Before that they had nothing. For 2+ years. This is simply not true. They made it perfectly clear that they wanted a deal with the customs union and single market. >True enough -- to a point. But he could say what the general outline
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>The conventional wisdom is that the party is split between Remainers and Leavers, and that Corbyn himself is a closet Leaver who wants to leave so he can get out from under EU rules on state aid and bring about a glorious socialist revo
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>That's not really much more information - revoke if the deal is not accepted? If the deal is not accepted, then referendum on may's deal vs remain, and they will campaign to remain. As I said. >What do they actually want fr
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>While he and his party have never had any clear position on it, by design. Their position is to negotiate another deal (if possible) and put it to a public vote, and put the existing deal to a vote if not. It's pretty clear albeit
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>his bum's going to be full of splinters... This particular talking point was kicked off and repeated frequently by the two newspapers who are owned by notorious tax avoiders - mail and telegraph. It then filtered down to the rest o
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Ironically this is one problem which is incredibly well suited to a market based solution, but the lobby groups which typically advocated for "let the market decide" (e.g. heritage/CATO/Americans for prosperity) took a l
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>After living in the UK for a year and encountering this tax system firsthand, I'm convinced that one of the main reasons for Brexit is that rich people in England are worried that EU tax harmonization could one day take away their
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It's funny that we have people in this thread arguing that the same policy worked for both Singapore and China and others arguing that Singapore is too small to be relevant to Chile's experience while China is too large.
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>Well by some measures we did struggle a lot during these shifts. The last industrial revolution was a period of social unrest, featuring mass riots Are you saying that automation doesn't necessarily cause joblessness but that it di
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>It seems fairly obvious that any new automated technology removes more jobs than it creates. This argument seems to suggest that if, hypothetically speaking, 65% of the population had jobs that were automated away such that only 1% of t
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1MDB was kind of what I was thinking of.
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>The number of people making the decisions doesn't matter. Democratize things as much as you want and you'll often get irrational choices. Of course you will. The point about the greater fool theory is that the market system fo
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by pytester 7y ago
>Imagining a capitalist system composed of all rational actors, this problem would disappear completely. Yes, because it's pretty easy to imagine a functioning social system based upon people not being people. >that's expect
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by pytester 7y ago
This is a little more than just a matter of the intrinsic fallibility of human nature. There's also a structural flaw in capitalism itself that allows these massive wastes of resources to be perpetuated: https://en.wikipedia
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This sounds less like a cunning plan for economic growth and more like a cunning plan to funnel money into the pockets of the 20-something children of well connected people.
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by pytester 7y ago
Others may see it differently but I see it as the kind of programming where: * Bugs are typically caused by misunderstandings of requirements or something odd about the interactions between different systems, and rarely about internal logic
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by pytester 7y ago
"Packages exist for doing this" isn't the same thing as "this is a good ecosystem for doing this kind of work" though. I'm fairly convinced that Haskell is good at preventing the kinds of bugs which you might r
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by pytester 7y ago
Precisely. The Boris Johnson who is acting off the cuff - reciting the myanmar poem or acting like a moron in portugal - is the real Boris Johnson. The Boris Johnson who uses "SEO tactics" has been programmed by advisors. Portugal
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>Again, rent in cities that aren’t the hot, desirable coastal ones is quite reasonable Wages are shit in a lottt of those places. Rents are reasonable as a % of SF programmer income I suppose, but the picture is a little different if it&
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Even if you do consider college a want (which is highly dubious in today's wage earning environment and with competition from globalization that didn't exist before), rent and medical care are the furthest possible thing from wa
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>No, they've gone up - but my point is that the baseline costs for raising a child in average, decent-quality conditions (in today's terms) are still drastically lower than even the lowest of salaries I don't see how that
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Did the cost of rent, medical care and college go down?
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>In the UK, Labour was the champion of the working class, now they look upon the same people as "vulnerable people" This is false. Labour is undergoing a reversal in the policy of the blairite years where they tied their mast t
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>As for political will I feel we should first start with the numbers and works out what adds up. If people don't want nuclear but nuclear is the only path to zero carbon then we'll need to choose one or the other. I've not

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